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Overview

OpenID is a reasonably new authentication method that puts the user in control of their own identity but turning their blog or site into their identity. When you think about it your site/blog is a representation of what you are online already, why not take that concept a bit further by using it to let you login everywhere else.

Status

Researching

ToDo

Setup OpenID on your own site identify you. [Done]

Convince others to do the same.

Setup your site to accept OpenID login from other users.

Convince others to do the same

Goal

Infrastructure that lets me login everywhere using my site as my identity.

Current Research

06:28/2007: Verisign Seatbelt, an extension for Firefox that monitors for when your logging in via OpenID and runs a series of checks and balances to ensure that you're not doing it insecurely or being phished.